Artificial Life

If you're gonig to build an interactive environment, you need
something to interact with.

Bruce
Blumberg and others from the Autonomous
Agents Group have populated our interactive world with agents that
try to behave like real animals: dogs and hampsters. The agents
enhance the IVE experience by giving the user something interesting to
interact with.

The agents interpret the state of the world and the state of the human
(as provided by the
vision system) to determine thier responses.